Chilembwe, John (c. 1870–1915), Baptist minister and anti-colonial rebel, was probably born at Sangano, Chiradzulu, in modern Malawi, of a Yao father (reportedly called Kaundama), and a Mang'anja or Cewa slave mother (reportedly called Nyangu). Very little is known of his early life. He acquired a basic knowledge of English from one of the earliest outposts of Scottish Presbyterian missionaries. In 1892 he became ‘cook boy’ to the recently arrived independent English missionary ...
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E. F. Clipsham
Fuller, Andrew (1754–1815), Baptist minister and theologian, was born at Wicken, Cambridgeshire, on 6 February 1754. He was the youngest of three sons of Robert Fuller, farmer, and Philippa Gunton (d. 1816), daughter of Andrew Gunton of Soham, Cambridgeshire. He attended the village school at ...
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Rosemary Chadwick
Hall, Robert (1764–1831), Baptist minister, was born at Arnesby in Leicestershire on 2 May 1764, the youngest of fourteen children of Robert Hall (1728–1791), Arnesby's much respected Baptist minister, and his wife, Jane (née Catchaside). Hall was a sickly baby and slow to develop, but became a precocious child, writing hymns at seven, devouring theological works by ...
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Grayson Carter
Noel, Baptist Wriothesley (1799–1873), Church of England clergyman and Baptist minister, was born at Leightmount, Scotland, on 10 July 1799 into a household which combined whig politics, evangelical devotion, aristocratic unconventionality, and strong-mindedness in a potent blend. He was the tenth son among the sixteen children of ...
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Payne, Ernest Alexander (1902–1980), Baptist minister and ecumenist, was born on 19 February 1902 at 38 Ickburgh Road, Upper Clapton, London, the eldest of the three children of Alexander Payne (1862–1941), partner in an accountancy firm bearing his name, and his wife, Catherine Griffiths (1863–1943)...
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Rushbrooke, James Henry (1870–1947), Baptist minister and secretary of the Baptist World Alliance, was born on 29 July 1870 at 39 Cudworth Street, Bethnal Green, London, the son of James Rushbrooke, later a stationmaster at Thorpe-le-Soken, Essex, and his wife, Sarah Jane Pegram...
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E. F. Clipsham
Ryland, John (1753–1825), Baptist minister and theologian, was born at Warwick on 29 January 1753, the elder son of John Collett Ryland (1723–1792), Baptist minister and schoolmaster, and his first wife, Elizabeth Frith (d. 1779) of Warwick. His brother, Herman Witsius Ryland...
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Spurgeon, Charles Haddon (1834–1892), Baptist preacher and religious writer, was born on 19 June 1834 at Kelvedon, Essex, the eldest of seventeen children, eight surviving, of John Spurgeon (1810–1902), clerk to a coal and shipping firm and lay preacher, later an Independent minister, and his wife, ...
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Stanford, Peter Thomas (1860–1909), Baptist minister, was born into slavery on a plantation in Hampton, Virginia, USA. His father was sold before his birth, and his mother shortly afterwards. Aged five at the end of the American Civil War which formally ended slavery, the orphaned boy was taken in by Native Americans, who taught him their language. They eventually passed him to a Quaker group who took him to an orphanage in ...
